Word: goals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gain, and Coy gained two yards through tackle. Alcott recovered Coy's onside kick on Harvard's 24-yard line, and it looked as if Yale was off for a touchdown. But Coy and Bomar gained only four yards in two plays, and Bomar dropped back for a goal from placement. The ball went wide and Burr punted...
...victory may be credited chiefly to the perfection of the team work which the visiting team possessed. Yale's players as individuals were no better than Harvard's, nor did they play as brilliantly, but her concentrated attack and ability to push the ball over the goal line when once within striking distance, was what brought Yale out of the contest victorious. It was a game in which eleven individuals played hard and well against a more perfectly working, machine-like team, equipped with an offense that was able to gain ten yards in three downs by means of straight...
...gained three yards through centre. Newhall dropped back to punt, but the Yale team, expecting a fake play, were taken off their guard and Macdonald, by fast work, recovered the ball on Yale's 20-yard line. In two plays Wendell gained only two yards and Parker tried a goal from the field, but the ball went to Jones on the 6-yard line...
...backs are still a trifle slow in starting but are very fast on end runs and good at line plays. The ends are able to stop plays well but are easily blocked in getting down under punts. The fact that Yale's opponents have been able to cross her goal line but once this season, and then on a long run, shows that the defense is really stronger than seems apparent...
During the past week enthusiasm has risen to a pitch probably higher than would have accompanied a season in which Harvard's goal line had not been crossed. The primary object of this was to inspire the team with the idea that the whole University is behind it. But the frequency and effervescent spirit of these spontaneous outbursts prove that they are not forced, but that underlying it all there is a real confidence in the team. We know that every man on the eleven will do all that lies in his power to justify this confidence, and we wish...